In the background of the anti-CAA protests, an untoward incident during the high-profile Trump visit would have certainly shown India in poor light. Now Delhi Police has a case.
We stand in solidarity and outrage, with the brave young scholar Umar Khalid, arrested under fabricated charges of engineering the Delhi riots, they said in a joint statement.
Khalid, who was arrested 13 September, has also been booked for sedition, murder, attempt to murder, promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and rioting.
As you read Delhi Police's 17,000-page charge sheet in Delhi riots case, ignore every question because you must not allow petty facts to disturb a good story.
Except for a vague post on Facebook — Kanhaiya Kumar has been quiet on his former JNU ally and Tihar Jail comrade Umar Khalid’s arrest in the Delhi riots case.
A reporter climbs Ladakh mountain, another asks a postman why he tore down Kangana Ranaut’s office, and yet another calls an FB session a ‘secret tape’. TV isn’t news anymore.
Umar Khalid looks beyond the revolutionary fantasies of a violent overthrow of the Indian State and is willing to engage with the messy ways of democratic politics.
Those questioned by Delhi Police share with me their harrowing experience of being repeatedly called to interrogation chambers and threatened with imprisonment.
Words like 'ghuspethiye' or 'tushtikaran' resonate very little in West Bengal, nor do phrases like 'mangalsutra' or Amit Shah's distortion of Mamata Banerjee's 'Maa, Mati, Manush' slogan into 'mullah, madrasa, mafia'.
In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Now we know who is script writer for all the chargesheets prepared by Delhi Police. Good job Mr Chary, please write some Bollywood stories too, these days Bollywood isnt creating good content and it badly needs people with your level of imagination.
Why should The Print give unlimited space to people whose only objective seems to be to abuse reputed institutions like JNU? Can’t there be anything good in this country unless it is dominated by BJP/ RSS ?
I disagree vehemently with what mr. Chari is saying but applaud print for giving space to all pov. I wish mr. Chari and his party accorded the same right to someone like Umar khalid. This is the cornerstone of democracy. Highlighting differences using protests is not a crime nothing umar khalid said incited violence, on the contrary it appealed for pease and harmony.
Bring shoot at sight law, and the law to confiscate properties of the WHOLE FAMILIES of all accused., speedy trial and no appeal, death sentence executed all within 3 months. Clean up quick, set great example and move on to next target to be exterminated.
Amazing. That such a filthy, uncouth goon is given space to peddle his fascist fantacy.
” The general feeling among a section of law enforcement authorities is that many times, riot perpetrators, after causing severe damages to life and property of innocent civilians, manage to go unpunished under political patronage. It is these elements who later form a mafia and a strong politics-underworld nexus. Rarely does a police officer summon enough courage to challenge such sinister nexus and when someone does, s/he is transferred to some “punishment posting”. ” –> Were you referring to Narendra Modi himself?! As in his actions during and after the Gujarat Riots?! Or his actions in protecting Kapil Mishra?!
If Modi actually thinks that the riots were a conspiracy to create bad publcity during Trump’s visit, he must question Amit Shah and Kapil Mishra. It was their actions that directly triggered the riots. Also, how can anyone provide political patronage to the accused in the Delhi riots cases, when the Delhi Police itself is controlled by the BJP?!
Modi-Shah have arrested student activists under the UAPA only because they have absolutely no proof or even prima facie evidence to arrested them under any other law. So they’ve been arrested under the law that does not require any proof. What the law does require though, is a judge low on intelligence, yet high on ambition, and these are apparently available in abundance. No evidence has yet been submitted even in the Bhima Koregaon case, yet the human rights activists arrested continue to languish in jail. Why? Simply because Modi is scared of them. Same with the students arrested for the Delhgi riots. The plan is to make them an example, and scare the rest into silence. But it seems has underestimated the people of India!!
I pity sometimes, but also feed proud about the print who has no qualms reporting both sides of the coin. the troll armies always have a field day, though. the tolerance levels of junta have gone down the drain, seriously
UAPA and its cousin NSA should at onec br repealed, as theye are being abused by the government. Thgese undemiocratic laws don’t fit in a democracy like India. A foremost political scientist had written today: “Normally, in a society constituted by the rule of law, we should let the investigation run its course before pronouncing judgment. But we are living in a world where the state, in partnership with the media, does not subscribe to this restraint. In case after case, it runs nightly media trials, destroying people’s lives and reputations. The state uses investigations, leaked evidence, chargesheets as pretexts for establishing narrative dominance and to intimidate. It is not interested in guilt or innocence. It is interested in demonstrating that it can destroy your life with impunity. It can declare you a terrorist, it can declare you a drug lord, and it can charge you under UAPA. In the Delhi chargesheets, dozens and dozens of students and distinguished academics are facing exactly this prospect. “The law will take its own course”, the state wants to say. But, in the meanwhile, let us show you what we can do to you. How we can make an example of you so other intellectuals dare not speak. The law should take its own course when the state is interested in law. But when the state is using law as an instrument of ideological and physical intimidation, the phrase “let the law take its own course” becomes a cover to subvert our constitutional values.”
Vicious. Poisonous. Callous. How come such well educated, learned writer tuned violent through his every word.
Message is loud and clear, do what ever you want, we will not spare you.
Good to see an article with different view from people like Shivam Vij and Yogendra Yadav. Print has columns from lots of extreme leftists. This perspective gives a different view. May be more articles that shows different perspective cam make people like me to subscribe to print.
Hahaha people going nuts over a post demeaning their position. seems like our liberal friends like Sanghis cant stand another point of view. LOL AND THEY LITERALLY THINK THEY ARE BETTER THAN SANGHIS IS THE FUNNIER JOKE.
haha some people are angry cuz the print has an “opinion” page. you clowns this is an opinion page. you may not agree to it but that is quite rare in clowns who go on bashing the other side for being a “sanghi”. Nowadays that expelled congress minister is also called a sanghi lol you idiots are just dumbasses
Amitav Ghosh – who many believe deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature – is one of 200 thinkers who have called for the release of Umar Khalid. They have also expressed disappointment over the conduct of Delhi Police for the better part of this year. A sentiment widely shared by people of good conscience within the country as well. These 200 signatories are widely respected all over the world, help in shaping our global image, reputation, perception in a way that no official machinery can hope to. 2. Some years ago, it was conventional wisdom that the UNSC was incomplete without India’s presence, impeded largely by the prospect of a Chinese veto. Today, both the hard and soft components of India’s power are in decline. Decay is too strong a word, but we will get there as well.
The Print can not seek support for good journalism while also publishing onesided opinion piece of #BJP which already allover the sold out mainstream media.
I feel sad when RSS extremists are allowed to sophisticatedly spew venom on a wonderful platform like The Print.
This is one reason I always think of paying something to The Print but after seeing such poison being spread I desist….
Now we know who is script writer for all the chargesheets prepared by Delhi Police. Good job Mr Chary, please write some Bollywood stories too, these days Bollywood isnt creating good content and it badly needs people with your level of imagination.
“Law and order” appear to be enforced only upon Muslims.
Anyway, enjoy few more years of thuggery, soon there will be Shariah in India.
Not, if I wipe you out first
Why should The Print give unlimited space to people whose only objective seems to be to abuse reputed institutions like JNU? Can’t there be anything good in this country unless it is dominated by BJP/ RSS ?
I disagree vehemently with what mr. Chari is saying but applaud print for giving space to all pov. I wish mr. Chari and his party accorded the same right to someone like Umar khalid. This is the cornerstone of democracy. Highlighting differences using protests is not a crime nothing umar khalid said incited violence, on the contrary it appealed for pease and harmony.
Bring shoot at sight law, and the law to confiscate properties of the WHOLE FAMILIES of all accused., speedy trial and no appeal, death sentence executed all within 3 months. Clean up quick, set great example and move on to next target to be exterminated.
Amazing. That such a filthy, uncouth goon is given space to peddle his fascist fantacy.
” The general feeling among a section of law enforcement authorities is that many times, riot perpetrators, after causing severe damages to life and property of innocent civilians, manage to go unpunished under political patronage. It is these elements who later form a mafia and a strong politics-underworld nexus. Rarely does a police officer summon enough courage to challenge such sinister nexus and when someone does, s/he is transferred to some “punishment posting”. ” –> Were you referring to Narendra Modi himself?! As in his actions during and after the Gujarat Riots?! Or his actions in protecting Kapil Mishra?!
If Modi actually thinks that the riots were a conspiracy to create bad publcity during Trump’s visit, he must question Amit Shah and Kapil Mishra. It was their actions that directly triggered the riots. Also, how can anyone provide political patronage to the accused in the Delhi riots cases, when the Delhi Police itself is controlled by the BJP?!
Modi-Shah have arrested student activists under the UAPA only because they have absolutely no proof or even prima facie evidence to arrested them under any other law. So they’ve been arrested under the law that does not require any proof. What the law does require though, is a judge low on intelligence, yet high on ambition, and these are apparently available in abundance. No evidence has yet been submitted even in the Bhima Koregaon case, yet the human rights activists arrested continue to languish in jail. Why? Simply because Modi is scared of them. Same with the students arrested for the Delhgi riots. The plan is to make them an example, and scare the rest into silence. But it seems has underestimated the people of India!!
I pity sometimes, but also feed proud about the print who has no qualms reporting both sides of the coin. the troll armies always have a field day, though. the tolerance levels of junta have gone down the drain, seriously
UAPA and its cousin NSA should at onec br repealed, as theye are being abused by the government. Thgese undemiocratic laws don’t fit in a democracy like India. A foremost political scientist had written today: “Normally, in a society constituted by the rule of law, we should let the investigation run its course before pronouncing judgment. But we are living in a world where the state, in partnership with the media, does not subscribe to this restraint. In case after case, it runs nightly media trials, destroying people’s lives and reputations. The state uses investigations, leaked evidence, chargesheets as pretexts for establishing narrative dominance and to intimidate. It is not interested in guilt or innocence. It is interested in demonstrating that it can destroy your life with impunity. It can declare you a terrorist, it can declare you a drug lord, and it can charge you under UAPA. In the Delhi chargesheets, dozens and dozens of students and distinguished academics are facing exactly this prospect. “The law will take its own course”, the state wants to say. But, in the meanwhile, let us show you what we can do to you. How we can make an example of you so other intellectuals dare not speak. The law should take its own course when the state is interested in law. But when the state is using law as an instrument of ideological and physical intimidation, the phrase “let the law take its own course” becomes a cover to subvert our constitutional values.”
Finally someone spoke the truth but the poor fellow will be branded as right. Thats the cost of speaking truth in India.
Like the Delhi Police, Mr. Chari presents just one side of the story!!
The truthful side …
Vicious. Poisonous. Callous. How come such well educated, learned writer tuned violent through his every word.
Message is loud and clear, do what ever you want, we will not spare you.
Good and real one
Good to see an article with different view from people like Shivam Vij and Yogendra Yadav. Print has columns from lots of extreme leftists. This perspective gives a different view. May be more articles that shows different perspective cam make people like me to subscribe to print.
Hahaha people going nuts over a post demeaning their position. seems like our liberal friends like Sanghis cant stand another point of view. LOL AND THEY LITERALLY THINK THEY ARE BETTER THAN SANGHIS IS THE FUNNIER JOKE.
haha some people are angry cuz the print has an “opinion” page. you clowns this is an opinion page. you may not agree to it but that is quite rare in clowns who go on bashing the other side for being a “sanghi”. Nowadays that expelled congress minister is also called a sanghi lol you idiots are just dumbasses
Amitav Ghosh – who many believe deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature – is one of 200 thinkers who have called for the release of Umar Khalid. They have also expressed disappointment over the conduct of Delhi Police for the better part of this year. A sentiment widely shared by people of good conscience within the country as well. These 200 signatories are widely respected all over the world, help in shaping our global image, reputation, perception in a way that no official machinery can hope to. 2. Some years ago, it was conventional wisdom that the UNSC was incomplete without India’s presence, impeded largely by the prospect of a Chinese veto. Today, both the hard and soft components of India’s power are in decline. Decay is too strong a word, but we will get there as well.
The Print can not seek support for good journalism while also publishing onesided opinion piece of #BJP which already allover the sold out mainstream media.
I feel sad when RSS extremists are allowed to sophisticatedly spew venom on a wonderful platform like The Print.
This is one reason I always think of paying something to The Print but after seeing such poison being spread I desist….
Why do you give column space to this clown?
The prints editorial section gets shittier.